In fact, the new MacBook recorded 293 minutes or 4 hours and 53 minutes, which is just 6 minutes longer than last year's model - in other words, negligible. However, our battery test, which consists of tasks like video editing, web browsing and gaming, did not confirm their claims. In fact, as you can see from the graphs here, integrated graphics still have quite some ways to go before they can be used for gaming.Īccording to Apple, the new MacBook will provide an additional hour of battery life when compared to last year's model. While that's certainly good news, it unfortunately doesn't mean that Tomb Raider is playable on the new MacBook. On Tomb Raider, the new MacBook recorded significant graphics performance gains of over 10% when compared to its predecessor. Despite the performance gain, the MacBook still offers significantly less graphics performance when compared to the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, and also others comparable Windows-based Ultrabooks. But on the more intensive Fire Strike scenario, the updated model posted a score of 634 which translated to a performance gain of around 24%. On Cloud Gate, the scores of the new MacBook and last year's model were almost identical. However, the new MacBook still can't match up to the MacBook Pro, Microsoft Surface Pro 4, and also the more powerful UltraBooks like the Dell XPS 13 and HP Envy.Īpple claims that the new Intel HD Graphics 515 integrated GPU will offer much more performance, but its performance on 3DMark 2013 was a mixed bag. On the Home, Work and Creative workloads, the new MacBook's scores were consistently over 20% greater than last year's MacBook, and was also quite close to the scores of the MacBook Air. Moving on to PCMark 8, we can see that the new MacBook holds a steady and significant advantage over last year's MacBook in most workloads. The MacBook Pro was untouchable as the model we tested had a much more powerful Intel Core i5-5257U processor. But it was in multi-core mode that the new MacBook really impressed, racking up a score of 5023, which translated to 11% increase in performance and brought it close to the performance of the MacBook Air. In single-core operations, the new MacBook and its Skylake Core m3 processor was around 7% faster. Unsurprisingly, the new MacBook posted higher scores than last year's model. Geekbench is a popular Mac benchmarking software that measures a Mac system’s performance by running a variety of tests that taxes individual components of a system such as the processor and memory and then gives an overall score of the system’s performance. To get a sense of how the new MacBook stacks up against its predecessor and Apple’s other notebooks, we decided to run Geekbench. As for Windows machines, we have included results of the Dell XPS 13, winner of the Ultrabook category in our last Tech Awards, along with the HP Envy and Microsoft Surface Pro 4. One thing to note is that Apple has dropped Bootcamp support for Windows 7, so Mac users who wish to run Windows on their MacBooks will only be able to choose between Windows 8 and Windows 10.įor comparison, we have included results of last year’s MacBook as well as last year’s 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display and the 13-inch MacBook Air. ![]() This will allow us run our usual suite of benchmarks and let us peg its performance against comparable Windows notebooks that we have reviewed. To evaluate the new MacBook, we have installed Windows 10 on it using Bootcamp. Performance Benchmarking, Battery, and Portability Performance Benchmarking
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